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THE AZRAQ EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FUND INC

EIN 47-4547136 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$601,210
Expenses 2024
$576,778

Program services were 92.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T12
Classification
1000
Street
319 E 50TH STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

OUR MISSION IS TO RESTORE DIGNITY AND ENRICH LIVES OF SYRIAN REFUGEES AND OTHER VULNERABLE FAMILIES LIVING IN THE RURAL AND UNDERSERVED COMMUNITY OF AZRAQ, JORDAN BY PROVIDING INNOVATIVE EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES AND CRITICAL HUMANITARIAN AID.

  • THE AZRAQ EDUCATION CENTER: FOUNDED IN 2014, THE AZRAQ EDUCATION CENTER IS AN ACADEMIC ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM PROVIDING REMEDIAL EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES AND VULNERABLE JORDANIANS IN SOUTH AZRAQ, JORDAN. THE AZRAQ CENTER HOSTS 350+ STUDENTS STARTING AT LEVEL PRE-K THROUGH GRADE 12. WE OFFER DAILY INSTRUCTION IN ARABIC, ENGLISH, MATH, SCIENCE, IT, ART, MUSIC AND MORE FOR SOME OF THE MOST VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN AZRAQ. OUR PROGRAM AIMS TO BENEFIT THE WIDER COMMUNITY THROUGH REGULAR OUTREACH, AWARENESS SESSIONS, HUMANITARIAN AID DISTRIBUTIONS, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES. WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE CREATED MORE THAN 20 JOBS FOR MEMBERS OF THE AZRAQ COMMUNITY THROUGH THE CENTER. SEE PART III, LN 4A STATEMENT

    Expenses $476,382 · Grants $140,951

  • ABDUL HAMEED EDUCATION: IN 2024, AECF WAS AWARDED A RESTRICTED GRANT FROM THE ABDUL HAMEED SHOMAN FOUNDATION TO ESTABLISH AND GROW OUR LIBRARY PROGRAM. EXPENSES INLCUDED ENLARGING THE LIBRARY SPACE, ADDING NEW BOOKS AND EQUIPMENT, AND HOSTING AN ARRAY OF PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES. THE GRANT SUPPORTED FIEDL TRIPS FOR STUDENTS AND STIPENDS FOR PARENTS TO VOLUNTEER FOR READ-ALOUD PROGRAMS AND OTHER READING-FOCUSED INITIATIVES. TWO DEDICATED STAFFS WERE ALSO TRAINED AS LIBRARIANS.

    Expenses $25,252 · Grants $9,537

  • SYRIAN YOUTH EMPOWERMENT: IN 2024, AECF SIGNED A GRANT AGREEMENT WITH SYE TO ADAPT THEIR SIGNATURE COLLEGE PREP PROGRAM FOR THE STUDENTS IN AZRAQ. THIS INCLUDED TRANSLATING CURRICULUM INTO ARABIC AND SUPPORTING THE AZRAQ STAFF TO PROVIDE SERVICES FOR A GROUP OF COLLEGE-BOUND STUDENTS TO STRATEGIZE AND PREPARE FOR THE RIGOROOUS COLLEGE ADMISSIONS PROCESS.

    Expenses $10,000 · Grants $10,000

  • HUMANITARIAN AID DISTRIBUTES FOOD AID TO VULNERABLE JORDANIAN AND SYRIAN FAMILIES IN THE AZRAQ COMMUNITY. EMERGENCY MEDICAL RELIEF IS PROVIDED ON A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS.

    Expenses $22,772 · Grants $22,772

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Alexis Shereshewsky

    EXECURITVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Demetri Blaisdell

    CHIEF OF BUSINESS AFFAIRS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Mary Murano

    DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ken Bernhard

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Martine Stilwell

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Joe Moosa

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jerry Shereshewsky

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $601,210
    Expenses
    $576,778
    Contributions
    $594,760
    Grants paid
    $183,260
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $615,657
    Expenses
    $566,410
    Contributions
    $615,657
    Grants paid
    $192,482
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $426,941
    Expenses
    $515,079
    Contributions
    $426,941
    Grants paid
    $171,550

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $806,680
    Expenses
    $767,852
    Assets (EOY)
    $229,294

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $396,847
    Expenses
    $353,712
    Assets (EOY)
    $179,418

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $392,510
    Expenses
    $309,525
    Assets (EOY)
    $221,015

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $205,902
    Expenses
    $156,871
    Assets (EOY)
    $138,460

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $209,618
    Expenses
    $161,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $88,962

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $77,287
    Expenses
    $34,094
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,192

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

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Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.